jreese

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by jreese 4y ago
Sometimes the person driving the car does not (want to?) pay attention or has "ceded responsibility" for car maintenance, and it's nice to get these reports without needing to periodically remember to check the car manually.
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by jreese 4y ago
I had a friend in high school who literally drove his (used) Civic every day for five years and never once changed the oil. You'd be amazed how well synthetic oil holds up in an engine designed for long term reliability.
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by jreese 4y ago
iStat Menus is the venerable favorite: https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
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by jreese 4y ago
... and everyone laid off from Meta this week ...
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by jreese 4y ago
And yet it can also be haphazard and misguided too. My experience has mostly been that the general comp level is high enough across the board, but discretionary/additional equity is almost exclusively thrown at high visibility/pet
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by jreese 4y ago
Fantastical is the Apple Calendar replacement that should have been mentioned.
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by jreese 4y ago
I sincerely doubt anyone whose primary income is working as a retail employee is getting taxed anywhere near a 50% marginal tax rate, even if you include city/county/state taxes.
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by jreese 4y ago
I'm sure they would love one, but it's probably not that easy/cheap to find one that can handle that much torque with such heavy loads. The biggest/heaviest trucks just end up using electric/traction motors running
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by jreese 4y ago
Trucks don't have 18 gears for efficiency. They have 18 gears because low-revving diesel engines have small power bands; mix that with heavy loads, and it pretty much necessitates having a lot of short, closely-spaced gear ratios, so t
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by jreese 4y ago
I literally let my server sit without upgrades for almost three years before realizing my autoupdater script had been failing me. The biggest issue was needing to manually download a statically linked version of pacman (found on the arch fo
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by jreese 4y ago
How do folks actually watch Formula E races, without a cable subscription? The Formula E Youtube channel only ever posts "highlights" through the season, and then waits to the end of the season to post full races to their channel.
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by jreese 4y ago
Having your money "work for you" requires discipline, awareness, and trust in economic stewards far beyond what the average lottery player is capable of managing. The annuities still offer life-changing sums of wealth, but also gu
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by jreese 4y ago
> banking on your incapacity to calculate for inflation $43M / year for 30 years sounds like a pretty good retirement in any sort of inflation short of catastrophic economic collapse.
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by jreese 4y ago
$42.69/share is just sitting there, patiently waiting.
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by jreese 4y ago
On the flip-side, it's worth keeping in mind where the puck is heading. Every "new" macOS app from Apple (eg, Shortcuts, System Settings, and even recent refreshes of old apps) has been written in either SwiftUI or Catalyst.
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by jreese 4y ago
Even better, OBS now supports directly logging into Twitch, which then also gives you windows to set stream description and see user chat, all within OBS.
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by jreese 4y ago
I'd buy a iPhone with a slide-out keyboard—a la the HTC Dream/G1 [1]—in a heartbeat. I'm happy with the onscreen keyboard for simple things like a quick search or message, but I also really want the option for a proper, physi
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by jreese 4y ago
I've been doing it for over six years now, so why not? Joined ten years ago yesterday and made it to IC5, and haven't had any desire for a promo since then, so I just work on we/hatever I think is the best thing I can spend m
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by jreese 4y ago
I would rather get paid less (still in top 99+% of US mind you) to do work that is meaningful to me, my coworkers, and the wider open source community-and then clock out at six pm to spend time with my partner and play games-than earn more
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by jreese 4y ago
One of the best parts of being happy at a "terminal level" in FAANG is that I can easily pick what I work on for best impact on the teams around me (and the engineering org as a whole) without worrying about chasing a promotion.
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by jreese 4y ago
Oops! Thanks for catching that. I fixed the example.
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by jreese 4y ago
This is only true for string literals. Strings constructed at runtime may (and often will) end up as separate objects: >>> a = "this is a long sentence in a string literal" >>> b = "this is a long&
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by jreese 4y ago
FWIW, that version ends up being slower, because you're constructing and iterating over a tuple for every iteration, which incurs a similar cost to running `.strip()` twice. The sub-generator example I gave is better because you'r
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by jreese 4y ago
I actually just used it to what I would say was a perfect example of where it legitimately improved code readability while maintaining pythonic constructs: values = [ value for line in buffer.readlines() if (va
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by jreese 4y ago
> I think this is clever, and maybe even necessary, but feels risky to do on unaudited third-party Python libraries. This is why my coworker built the project he called "dowsing"; it tries to understand as much as possible from
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by jreese 4y ago
The Louvre charges 17€ per person, and I'm pretty sure they're focused on fine art. How much they're profit focused versus just reinvesting profits is up for debate.
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by jreese 4y ago
Sam Gross works for Meta, and to my knowledge, this is his #1 project. So in effect, one of the largest companies depending on Python is funding this work.
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by jreese 4y ago
AFAIK, this is the first time that CPython could be directly compiled for WASM (with no patches IIRC), and PyScript adds a number of components for better integrating Python with the DOM, importing extra modules at runtime, as well as a ded
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by jreese 4y ago
The author mentions my talk in the list of ones to watch ("Open Source on Easy Mode"), but the actual presentation did not go well due to technical difficulties. I made the brave mistake of bringing only my iPad to present with, a
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by jreese 4y ago
It also sucks when terrible people abuse public profiles to harass and intimidate people. Privacy should always be an option for those who want or need it, otherwise we indirectly force marginalized people out of these spaces entirely.

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